Update at 10 a.m.: As expected, the Economic Development Committee voted to send the Dallas Farmer Market's five TIF agreements to the full council for a December 11 vote. But that was after an hour-long discussion during which council member Jerry Allen wanted to make sure the new ownership group wasn't just building a "an apartment development around an entertainment thing called a farmers market."

Said Allen, he was especially concerned about the loss of Pecan Lodge, which is moving to Elm Street in Deep Ellum.

"That's one of the top barbecue spots in Texas, but it's an attitude," he said. "Those guys attract so many folks to the market. That creates an attitude. When we lost that deal that perked my ears up." He asked Brian Bergersen to explain his "true vision" for the market.

"We've always said the most important part of this redevelopment is Shed 1," Bergersen told him. "That is the farmers market. The retail and restaurants compliment that. But the most important part of the farmers market is making sure we have fresh produce and it's year-round."

He said they have a coordinator working with farmers, and that they're attempting to bring back folks who've left in the last couple of years. Council member Rick Callahan also wondered what constitutes a "local farmer." Said Bergersen it's someone within 400 miles, but they're hoping to limit that to 150 miles -- though they will bring in "fresh" produce that's not necessarily grown in Texas during peak seasons. At which point he mentioned Hatch chilis, because Central Market.

He also reminded the council that on its eastern side, Shed 1 will have a band shell -- and it's being developed and assembled by none other than Angus Wynne.

The committee was concerned about spending so much public money on a single project in an area of downtown lacking density -- but not concerned enough to delay sending the item to council.

Dallas, though, needs to "connect the dots" between Victory Park, the Perot and the market, said chairman Tennell Atkins, reiterating one of his favorite themes.

"Right now there is a disconnect between the farmers market and the Arts District," he said. "That's something we need to do -- infrastructure. The market is sitting on an island by itself."

Original item posted at 8:40 a.m.: At 9 this morning the Dallas City Council's Economic Development Committee will get that briefing we promised back in October -- the one that lays out exactly how the Dallas Farmers Market's new owners will spend $15 million in dough from the recently expanded Farmers Market Tax Increment Finance District. The council will also get a better handle on the timeline for the proposed $64-million redevelopment of the Pecan Lodge-less downtown market.

"We always said there would be $15 million in TIF reimbursements," says Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city of Dallas' Office of Economic Development. "But this lays it out for each individual component. And each of those deals has a slightly different investor group and will have different financing packages put together."

But as assistant city manager Ryan Evans reminds, this is an expanded TIF that's more or less empty -- and the developer will be "carrying it for some years" before there's enough tax money for reimbursements.

Shed 1 -- the only part of the farmers market that will actually feature farmers -- will get a million-dollar makeover; about a third of that will come from TIF financing. It's expected to have stalls for 60 vendors -- twice its current capacity -- and customers will no longer be able to park beneath the shed. Incidentally, that's the piece of the market the city still owns. Says Zavitkovsky, "We retained ownership with some clear covenant that allows us to take it back if for some reason those conditions were violated."

DF Market Holdings now says it will cost $3.1 million to give the food-courting Shed 2 its makeover; $355,477 of that will come from the TIF grant. Some of that will go toward converting the patio into "a beer garden."

By far the biggest chunk of money will go toward razing Sheds 3 and 4 and replacing those with 240 apartments, ground-floor retail and 544 parking spaces. Ownership says that piece alone will cost $38.6 million, with $9.5 million in TIF funding --$1 million of which has already been spent on the design, says this morning's briefing packet. And as we reported in June, the new ownership group is trying to get money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Zavitkovsky says there will also be a likely EB-5 component, which swaps foreign investment dollars for immigration visas.

The second-largest TIF pile will go toward the 60 residential units and 25,000 square feet of retail planned on Taylor Street, site of three warehouses and former restaurants that will be demolished in coming months. That's scheduled to be a $19.2-million project, with $4.5 million funded with TIF dough. The remaining $800,000 is going toward the community garden and futsal fields behind the market.

Says the latest time line -- "contractual dates," says Zavitkovsky -- the streetscaping work doesn't have to begin till February, followed six months later by the Shed 1 redo. The whole thing isn't scheduled to wrap until December 31, 2016. But Zavitkovsky says they will be on "an accelerated time line," with most work scheduled to begin in 2014.

And, no, we still don't know who's moving into Shed 2 or the other proposed retail spaces: Several well-known restaurants and fresh-food retailers have been rumored as likely tenants, but Brian Bergersen, who spearheads the new ownership group, has yet to announce a single one.

"You're going to have a lot of interesting well-known places or places with good concepts," says Zavitkovsky. "In time, it will become the quintessential downtown experience -- a place not just for outsiders to visit on weekend. I see downtown as a series of neighborhoods, and that takes a while to evolve. In the old areas where you're having to retrofit and adaptively re-use these buildings, that takes a long time, and retail wasn't interested in coming back until had decent critical mass. But one of the things that leads to that is creating some of these destination locations. And I see the market as a destination location."